A company is planning on expanding and building a new plant in one of three Southeast Asian countries. Chris Ellis, the manager charged with making the decision, has determined that five critical success factors $($CSFs$)$ can be used to evaluate the prospective countries. Ellis used a rating system of $1($least desirable country$)$ to $5($most desirable$)$ to evaluate each CSF$.$

$\backslash$table$[[,,,$Candidate Country Ratings$],[$Factor$,$Critical Success Factors,Weight,Taiwan,Thailand,Singapore$],[1,$Technology,$0\mathrm{.}20,4,5,4],[2,$Level of education,$0\mathrm{.}10,4,3,3],[3,$Political and legal aspects,$0\mathrm{.}35,4,4,3],[4,$Social and cultural aspects,$0\mathrm{.}10,3,4,4],[5,$Economic factors,$0\mathrm{.}25,2,3,2]]$

a$)$ Based on the given information, the best location for Chris Ellis is $,$ with a total weighted score of $.($Enter your response rounded to two decimal places.$)$